JAPAN: Butterfly Redeemed

Great though the efforts of diplomats to conciliate Japan and the West have
been during the past year, no act of a foreigner has more
deeply touched the Japanese people than that of a young Western
businessman, Yan C. Hock, 28, who passed an evening last winter with
the courtesan, Izayoi, returned to pass another evening, ended by
working out the theme of the opera Madame Butterfly in unexpected
real-life fashion. As told by a Japanese reporter, events proceeded
thus:

"At 1130 a. m. the foreigner required an interview with the proprietor...